Jun 12, 2019 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Tips, Downsizing, Finding a Job, Job Search, Transition |
We are all guilty of it. You more than me if you work for a company. In songs about work it is often referred to as working for the man. I got an email from somebody in my network the other day. It was a LinkedIn message. Is your LinkedIn email connected to your work...
Aug 24, 2017 | Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Tips, Hank Blank |
Sorry but true. I got an e mail from somebody in the Bay Area the other day. The place where rents are sky high. Homelessness climbing at double digits and the commutes are as long as the Sunday drives of the past. She said that nobody in Silicon Valley would hire...
May 2, 2017 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, HR, Networking |
A NEW BOSS. I remember what a new boss meant in the Old Normal. The talk was often boy they are really smart and I am looking forward to learning from them. Today not so much. I have written in the past that an agency client relationship can be most perilous when the...
Jan 21, 2016 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, Career Tips |
I remember being in elementary school in downtown Toronto and my teachers would do a history lesson about how many people in the Middle Ages or before thought the world was flat. Many countries believed that their navy could fall off the end of the world. How could...
Aug 26, 2014 | Best Way to Get a Job, Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Finding a Job, Fired, Hank Blank |
I love PR speak. I am an advertising guy. I have helped promote jargon and word speak. I started my career aspiring to be an Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man. When corporate America fires people their PR machines fire up the corporate jargon of today. We have all...
Aug 5, 2014 | Career Planning, Career Success, Career Tips, Hank Blank, Networking |
I do because many people that I hardly know have given their friends to me. You get a call or an e mail from a former co-worker or a friend. “Hey buddy I just got let go. No way. That sucks. You are great. You will find a job soon. They will miss you and be sorry...
Apr 6, 2014 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, Career Tips |
A young friend shared with me the other day that they had recently been promoted. Congrats I said. I shared her story with another friend and she asked me a simple question that made me reflect for a bit. “Does she have anyone to supervise?” Probably not I thought. ...
Apr 1, 2014 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, Career Tips, Hank Blank |
I got a couple of emails recently. Both had graduated from the same school decades apart. One introduced to me a young man who had recently graduated and was looking for a job. A solid networking strategy is to reach out to your Alumni. I went to the University of...
Feb 6, 2014 | Career Planning, Hank Blank, Networking |
I got an email the other day from a very smart young lady that worked in the agency game. She always knew her stuff. I was checking in with her. She replied that all was good. Love my job she said. I just want to keep it. It struck me with reflection. Yes keeping...
Jan 18, 2013 | Career Planning, Job Search, Millennials, Networking |
“I’m just trying to figure it out.” People often tell me that they are trying to figure it out. After all the books, blogs, free and paid webinars and seminars on how to get to the next place – yet the majority of people don’t have a roadmap on where...
